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richter111

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  1. Nice, I have never done a actual Luftwaffe paint scheme.  I built the old Stuka painted it mustard yellow with brown spots for camo. More like ameoba blobs and patches, but for a 9 year old, looked pretty cool.  I also did not glue the spats so the gear could retract...

  2. I have that one purchased back in 2005 still sealed.  A hobby shop owner that I frequented in Duluth MN had a whole area of his hobby shop in the basement for storage, and forgot a stash of kits that he had in stock from the 60's and 70's.  HE sold me the kit for $10 sealed and gave me a 1/72 B-66 also sealed.  I opened the box, and it had the 1968 catalogue for Revell and a postcard you could send in with a dime taped to it and get a record with "Authentic" Japanese Zero engine sounds.  I wonder if I can take them up on it??

  3. Those old Revell/Monogram 1/32 kits.  You know the ones, inaccurate, clunky devoid of details.

     

    I absolutely love them.  When I build, it takes me back to the days as a kid in the 70's when I would slap a kit together in an hour, then spend weeks flying in the most amazing combat the world has ever seen, me, surviving against the entire Japanese and Luftwaffe.

     

    Now when I build them, I get a chance to stretch the skills, and in the back of my mind, still get to be the greatest pilot ever seen on the face of the Earth.

     

    Who's the same? come on, fess up!

  4. Oh I have some pretty decent skills, but I look at the wood work, the detail, and realize that some things are just so well done, that I would just botch it.  I enjoy scratching, and pushing my boundaries, but I still say some things are beyond me.

  5. If you ever get a chance visit his grave in Poplar Wisconsin.  He was buried about 15 minutes from my home.. Simple grave in a graveyard where his is tended to and he is remembered.  My wife's grandfather went to school with him back in the day, I even have her grandfathers yearbook with his signature and note in it.  He was quite the hero. 

     

    Your model is amazing, and the details stand out.  You have done him proud,

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